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ISCA
1997
IEEE
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The Agree Predictor: A Mechanism for Reducing Negative Branch History Interference
Deeply pipelined, superscalar processors require accurate branch prediction to achieve high performance. Two-level branch predictors have been shown to achieve high prediction acc...
Eric Sprangle, Robert S. Chappell, Mitch Alsup, Ya...
MICRO
1998
IEEE
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Analyzing the Working Set Characteristics of Branch Execution
To achieve highly accurate branch prediction, it is necessary not only to allocate more resources to branch prediction hardware but also to improve the understanding of branch exe...
Sangwook P. Kim, Gary S. Tyson
ISCA
1998
IEEE
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Dynamic History-length Fitting: A Third Level of Adaptivity for Branch Prediction
Accurate branch prediction is essential for obtaining high performance in pipelined superscalar processors that execute instructions speculatively. Some of the best current predic...
Toni Juan, Sanji Sanjeevan, Juan J. Navarro